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English Terms
STORY ELEMENTS
Question: The people, animals or creatures in a story
Answer: What are characters?
Question: The time and place in a story
Answer: What is the setting?
Question: The problem or struggle in a story
Answer: What is the conflict?
Question: The events or action in a story
Answer: What is the plot?
Question: The main character or hero/heroine of a story
Answer: What is the protagonist?
POETRY TERMS
Question: When words sound alike in a poem, especially at the end of lines
Answer: What is rhyme?
Question: A division or section of a poem
Answer: What is a stanza?
Question: The rhythm or pattern of syllables in a poem
Answer: What is meter?
Question: Repetition of beginning sounds in a line of poetry
Answer: What is alliteration?
Question: "a-a-b-a, b-b-c-b, c-c-d-c" is an example of this in poetry
Answer: What is rhyme scheme?
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Question: A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"
Answer: What is a simile?
Question: Extreme exaggeration
Answer: What is hyperbole?
Question: A direct comparison between 2 unlike things: George is such a lemming.
Answer: What is a metaphor?
Question: A phrase to describe that is NOT taken literally
Answer: What is an idiom?
Question: Description using sight, sound, smell, touch, taste
Answer: What are sensory details?
AUTHOR'S CRAFT
Question: When an author interrupts a story to tell something that happened before
Answer: What is a flashback?
Question: A brief story in an introduction to illustrate a point
Answer: What is an anecdote?
Question: Hints or clues of something to come in the story
Answer: What is foreshadowing?
Question: Using an object to represent an idea
Answer: What is symbolism or a symbol?
Question: Using words/phrases that mean the opposite of what you really want to say, in order to insult someone or to be funny
Answer: What is sarcasm?
EXAMPLES OF ...
Question: HISS, THUD, SQUEAK
Answer: What are some examples of onomatopoeia?
Question: Jumbo shrimp, old news, bittersweet
Answer: What are some examples of oxymorons?
Question: We need to work together because we're all in the same boat.
Answer: What is an example of an idiom?
Question: The blazing fire swallowed the forest of evergreens.
Answer: What is an example of personification?
Question: The experienced lifeguard drowned in the wading pool yesterday.
Answer: What is an example of irony?